https://drunkenpacket.com/ Recent content on DrunkenPacket Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 25 Aug 2023 08:35:55 -0400 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/recent_opinions/ Fri, 25 Aug 2023 08:35:55 -0400 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/recent_opinions/ Some opinions that have recently percolated into the packet’s awareness. Preserved here for our later amusement at how foolish I could be. Rust is hard: builds are slow cross-compilation is hard (especially for -sys packages.) Good luck getting a Rust/C++ binary to cross-compile. hard to learn The Rust evangelization has found stony ground in the packet. I am almost always fine with sacrificing a small amount of performance to excuse me from anticipating the complexities of object lifetimes. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/inventing-the-future/ Thu, 30 May 2019 18:00:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/inventing-the-future/ Probably you know Evernote as one of the High Tech unicorns. I used to work for them. Though I left the work a while ago, I still use Evernote everyday. I have been evaluating alternatives. So far I am not finding better one for me. Evernote service seems to be standing still for sevearl years. They used to push out new ideas and features all the time. Sometime I even felt we were doing too much. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/more_neglect/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 02:00:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/more_neglect/ This is a new post! But the packet has been distracted from blogging for a very long time. Hopefully new posts will start appearing soon. And we’ll repair the various work-in-progress structures. Things to look forward to: how this blog works assorted software development experiences. The packet hasn’t been away from keyboard for years even if you’ve been supposedly following along. back-filling of additional content. more book reviews https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/i-am-a-neglected-packet/ Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:45:30 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/i-am-a-neglected-packet/ It’s been so long since I last posted anything. Shame on me. In theory, I have done interesting things in the interim and can write about them. In particular, I have been making a series of changes to my local copy of Plan9 in user space. I will be making these available or even upstreaming over the coming months. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/bookmarks-from-the-omnibar/ Sun, 01 May 2011 08:12:55 -0400 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/bookmarks-from-the-omnibar/ Hello gentle readers. I have finished the first version of my Chrome extension for posting pinboard.in bookrmarks from the Chrome omnibox. The general idea is that, with the extension installed, you can type +pin hardware Buy a new computer to record a bookmark for the current page with the tag hardware and the note Buy a new computer. You can get it at github. I’ll package it up soon and then brave the process for submission to the extensions archive. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/pinboard/ Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:45:17 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/pinboard/ Oh devoted readers, you will recall from earlier that I was bemoaning the possible end of delicious. And my waxing cassandra on the matter. Eventually, I decided to use Google bookmarks. I have revisited my choices. I was finding Google bookmarks tedious. Besides, I wanted something different. So, I have done what I should have done in the first place and am now using Pinboard. This has required some integration with my web-browsing work-flow. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/broken-packet/ Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:14:23 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/broken-packet/ The packet is undergoing maintenance. It’s sad but true. Some fractured bones have limited the packet’s mobility, quality of life, etc. It makes exploring the alleyways of the physical world more difficult. Conversely, it has provided the packet with more time to explore the alleyways of the internet. And catch up on his reading. And possibly his blogging as well. My small but devoted audience may recall that earlier, I had started noting books that friends had leant me and was beginning to comment on them. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/food/ Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:29:06 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/food/ Dinner for two nights. Cabbage with miso sauce: I stir-fried cabbage with tinned fish, discarded the onion because it had withered up and added miso sauce: siracha, miso, rice vinegar, ginger. With a picture because I mentioned food photos. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/books-oh-my/ Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:13:25 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/books-oh-my/ Friends have leant me an assortment of books. I have nice friends. They have diverse interests. I’ve been reading them slowly. Some comments about them are in order. First finished book: World War Z. I would pronounce the last letter zed though I suppose the name has more humour as zee rhyming with three. What a strange saga. The zombies need a why. In particular how they resist rotting. Still, I was entertained. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/interpersonal-difference/ Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:50:27 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/interpersonal-difference/ The packet has over the last few weeks been busy trying to meet a work-related milestone. It would be mildly therapeutic to rant about the challenges of our schedule but this would be both indiscreet and tedious. Consequently, any non-work time has been spent with friends instead of more terminal time to blog or debug. (Note how the chrome plugin has not received any maintenance.) In this time, the packet has become aware of an aspect of human behavior which differs hugely between his friends: their respective acceptance (or even enjoyment) of off-colour humor. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/completing-the-textmate-circle/ Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:47:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/completing-the-textmate-circle/ In a previous post, I muttered about making Code Search queries from TextMate. In this post, I present the other side: opening Code Search results in TextMate. This Chrome extension will, once you configure the path to where you’ve put your Chromium source tree (the options page sets this), augment the line numbers in Code Search results with TextMate URLs. Click the line number to have TextMate open the file at the desired line. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/textmate-and-codesearch/ Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:17:07 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/textmate-and-codesearch/ The packet is fickle: always I am willing to switch to a new development workflow. Definitely if it’s better. Or even if it’s just different. Lately, I have been exploring use of TextMate. I use to use (and maintain my own version of) wily but given that a a three button mouse is mandatory to efficient use, it is a challenge to use on planes, trains, etc. Other posts will expand on my editor angst — Acme vs Wily and the absence of source highlighting for example. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/photos/ Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:00:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/photos/ It has become a bit of a recurring meme to take photos of food. Many times, food is indeed plated in a fashion that is at least creative if not actual art. This begs the question: what makes for photogenic food? The steam? The color? Does comfort food look better or worse than la nouvelle cuisine? Inquiring minds want to know. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/delicious/ Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:03:13 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/delicious/ It has penetrated the packet’s WebKit-induced mental torpidity that delicious will be going away. Ack. How will I have manage my enormous collection of semi-useful bookmarks? (A large and growing collection of digital cruft which are a meta-level equivalence to many of my books. Links to knowledge are equivalent to having the knowledge right? But never the mind. Back to the topic at hand. How to manage bookmarks now.) I have read redmonk’s opinion and have no idea how to proceed. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/wiki-tooling/ Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:00:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/wiki-tooling/ As per our first new-style post, the previous incarnation of drunkenpacket had a custom tool chain for building sites. It was an offline system: posts were written in Markdown collaboration was based on storing the changes in git and exchanging patches. (You’d be thinking at this juncture that drunkenpacket is comprised of programmers.) a miscellany of home-built command line tools in python constructed the html content from the Markdown source yet more command line tools uploaded the static content to S3. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/reboot/ Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/reboot/ It’s been a while. The packet has been distracted with life. I suppose that will get discussed in future articles. So we are trying something new. Largely because the old way was technically neat and all but required us to spend more time developing blogging tools than actually updating the blog. And so there are a lot of unfinished CLs for the blog tools but no actual new blog entries. So, a new way: less friction. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/1984again/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:00:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/1984again/ Some of you may remember 1984. Not the movie but Macintosh. As far as a computer geeks go, that was the event in the year. It took a while for me to touch the machine personally. I still remember the moment. I was a poor college student living in Tokyo back then. In an afternoon of the day, I stopped by a showroom of a major computer dealer in Tokyo downtown (precisely say, Takatano Baba). https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/pixeleditors/ Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:00:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/pixeleditors/ Introduction The packet wanted to change the size of an image. (You might notice the result in a previous post.) As always, we over-complicated the task. You see, rather than settling for just any editor, we here at drunkenpacket wanted an image editor that was satisfying. So, we tried some out. And will give you the benefit of our opinion. Even though you didn’t ask. The basis of comparison was some sort of non-objective sense of snappiness and responsiveness of dragging a selected segment of an image. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/slithering/ Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:00:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/slithering/ Not your usual alley denizen but a definite commentor with something to say. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/rotating-houses/ Thu, 15 May 2008 13:00:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/rotating-houses/ We here at drunkenpacket are concerned about energy efficiency. Really. You might think that bouncing around the Internet would make us not care but in our corporeal identity, there are gasp seasons. Seasons are the bane of the architecture of energy-efficient houses: a house needs to keep in every last erg of heat in the winter. But in the summer, this would slowly bake the packet. (Perhaps poach or desiccate depending on the humidity. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/first_post/ Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:00:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/first_post/ This first post contains no content of value. It is merely a dusty yellowing newspaper stumbling across a deserted alleyway. The paper billows beyond a veil of steam and the noises of the awakening city clink through the fog. The dawn is arriving. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/rails_in_lisp/ Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:13:25 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/rails_in_lisp/ It has occurred to me that it would be interesting to produce something like [Rails][rails] in Lisp. In the interests of brevity and the general entertainment of the drunkenpacket community (all three of you), let’s give this project a pseudo-neat name: RiL. This post is the first of several where we will discuss the possible implementation of RiL. What is distinct about Rails: convention instead of configuration defaults work out of the box and thereby provide for rapid development powerful ORM mechanism integrated template scheme All of these are lovely features. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/interleaving_pages/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:13:25 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/interleaving_pages/ Recently, the drunkenpacket had the need to unburden himself of a large supply of paper marked with various interesting (but obviously obsolete) information storage squiggles. Having serenditiptious access to a XEROX with a bulk sheet scanner attachment, the packet could not resist the obviously technical temptation: scan the informative squiggles (we think this is called printing or writing). Like all dp side projects, this one seemed to immediately explode with dependencies. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/shake_as_paint/ Sat, 18 Nov 2006 07:13:25 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/shake_as_paint/ There is yet to be an Intel version of PhotoShop on the Mac OSX platform. However, Apple has released a native version of Shake. I have always been entranced with Shake and am wondering if I can use it as an alternative to PhotoShop for image editing tasks? To answer this question in a series of subsequent blog entries, I will use the motivating example of preparing some mock-ups of a web site. https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/rollovers/ Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:13:25 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/rollovers/ While writing another blog article (much delayed by too much stumbling) it has come to me that I want a way to make some diagrams that look like a bit like some of the ones found at Instructables. In particular, this example shows what I mean. Here is a screen shot if the example has been moved, altered, doesn’t render in your browser etc. Observe the following: there is an image it has some high-lighted rectangles If (with the benefit of Instructables’ JavaScript and CSS) I put the cursor over them, it high-lights the region and pops up a description of it So, how can I do this? https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/going_left_right/ Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:00:00 +0000 https://drunkenpacket.com/posts/going_left_right/ Background Some time ago at work, I had the occasion to move offices. There were a number of reasons for this. However, the reason is not particularly germane. Here, we are concerned with a much more important issue: the new route to the breakroom. There are now two paths to the breakroom. The choice is agonizing. Do I want to go left or right? The routes seem almost the same length.